There is an interesting article in this month's US Naval Institute Proceedings which yielded surprises about Midway.
To summarize, The Chicago Tribune broke the intelligence and code breaking aspects of the battle by 7 June, and elaborated several times. As a consequence it appears the Japanese changed their code books again. Secretary Frank Knox appointed a secret investigation and asked Attorney General Biddle to charge the Tribune with espionage and treason, but the Department of Justice demurred, fearing even more secrets would escape during a trial.
If the Japanese hadn't changed their code books by August, their might be several cruisers and a carrier called Hornet that didn't get sunk in the following month.
Funny more like this doesn't happen today. There are plenty more traitors about in the US press and media.
Midway, 65 years later
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Midway, 65 years later
If an unfriendly power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.
-- "A Nation at Risk" (1983)
-- "A Nation at Risk" (1983)
